LeT member Butt on fresh 2-day remand

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) member Abdul Majid Butt alias Abu Yusuf Butt on a fresh two-day remand after he gave information on physician Azizur Rahman's abduction.

Metropolitan Magistrate Abdur Rahim placed Yusuf Butt on the remand while Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Inspector Mohammad Shahjahan, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced him before it seeking a ten-day further remand.

CID Inspector Shahjahan said in the petition as Butt did not divulge -- on the previous three-day remand from November 26 -- how the physician was abducted, so he should be remanded again to find out the victim's whereabouts and their accomplices.

Azizur Rahman, a resident of Mazar Road under Mirpur area of the capital, was kidnapped on September 4, 2003. His wife Farhana Reza Jui filed a case against five people without naming anyone on September 23 same year with Mirpur police station.

Yusuf Butt was shown arrested in the case on November 26 after information gleaned from Harkatul Jihad chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and Islamic Democratic Party Convener Maulana Sheikh Abdus Salam.

Mufti Hannan, Abdus Salam and several others were also shown arrested in the case and were remanded for several times.

Yusuf Butt was arrested on January 6 this year from Uttara for possessing firearms and later he was shown arrested in the August 21, 2004 grenade attack case and was remanded for several times.